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

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

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

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.