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

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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

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

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.