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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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