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.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

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.

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

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

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