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

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

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.

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

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

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

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.