It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

There are two kinds of writer: 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 of our decay.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

The day of the android has dawned.

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.