The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

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.

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.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.