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.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

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.

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

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.