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

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

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.

Ask Baby can you be truly part of someone you love." "He says only if you love yourself.

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.

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