I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.