It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

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.

Nothing is always absolutely so

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.

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

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