There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

I used to distinguish between my fiction and nonfiction in terms of superiority or inferiority.

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.