Nothing is always absolutely so.

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

Writing is a communication..

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

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….

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

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

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

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

Ninety percent of everything is crap..

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, ….

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

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