Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.
Robert Sheckley

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.
Robert Sheckley

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.
Robert Sheckley

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
Robert Sheckley

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.
Robert Sheckley

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.
Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Robert Sheckley

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
Robert Sheckley