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

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.

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.

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

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.