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.

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.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

The nations are as a drop of a bucket.

'Linux is a leprosy' - This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.

Pam said, "Sookie, I brought you something, too. I never thought I'd want to spend time with a human, but you're more tolerable than most.

Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease.

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.