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

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.