Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

As far as Im concerned, I didnt dream - ever.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.