Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

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.

If you love and care enough, you will give a lot, you will forgive a lot.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

There are no maps for the unexpected detours and unmarked paths we face in life.

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

I don't feel any obligation to make my intentions for a song accessible to a listener or an audience. I'm not interested in conveying anything to them so much as what's best for me.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

Russell Crowe likes to tell jokes, which I can't. I can't remember a joke to save my life. I don't have a brain for it.

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.