My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

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

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.

Never try to put all the chemicals in the entire world in your body at the same time.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

The difference isn't resources, it's attitude.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.