An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

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.

I will always believe in you. And that’s more powerful than memory.

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

I don't see why religion and science can't get along. What's wrong with counting our blessings with a computer?

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

We are limited only by our thoughts

The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.