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.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

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

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.

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.