It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

To do the work of others is slavery. To do the work of God is true liberation.

A star on its worst day shines brighter than the moon on its best day.

...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

For while it is of no particular importance how many things you start in life, it is of great importance how many you finish!

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.