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

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

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

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.