Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

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.

But inside of me I knew that the Olympics were still there. I was still young enough. I knew that once I transitioned out of hockey, it would be really hard to go back.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.