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

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.

Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?” “It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the reasons. Can you imagine yourself getting all worked up and contorted and illogical and then coming face to face with yourself, looking at yourself exactly as you look to everyone else?

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

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

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