It’s a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage...

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens,...

There are two kinds of writers; those that make you think and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state...