Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

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.

Don’t always deprive yourself trying to please others

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Everything seems impossible until you see success.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.

Arrogance cometh before reality.