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

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.

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.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

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.

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.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.