Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

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

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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

Corollary 1: The existence of immense quantities of trash in science fiction is admitted and it is regrettable; but it is no more unnatural than the existence of trash anywhere.

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