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

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

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.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

They say dogs ignore their reflections in mirrors because they can't smell them. Dogs, unlike people, are not fooled by what they see.