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

That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe..

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, bu….

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it..

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do..

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food..

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

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

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing..

I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is..

Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, ….

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

Writing is a communication..

Ninety percent of everything is crap..

No man can rob successfully over a period of years without pleasing the people he robs..

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

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

There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneli….

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

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that..

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive..