Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

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.

The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.