Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.
It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
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.
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.
They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.