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

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

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

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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

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

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.