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.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

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

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