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

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.

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.

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency.

I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.

I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife.

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

If I'm having a fancy glass of champagne, I'll always mix it with the champagne of beers. Because I deserve all the champagnes.

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

It's not a feminizing product; it's designed to make your skin look better.