Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

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

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.

Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.