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

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.