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

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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

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.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.