Theodore Sturgeon — American Writer born on February 26, 1918, died on May 08, 1985

Theodore Sturgeon was an American science fiction and horror writer and critic. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with about 400 reviews and more than 200 stories... (wikipedia)

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.