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

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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

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.

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