Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

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.

Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

You have to shelf your excitement and be realistic about your internal and external strengths and weaknesses. (p.70)

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope

He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.