I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.

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 absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

How are you managing the velocity of change?

The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

The history of a man is in his character.

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

He left Himmel Street wearing his hangover and a suit.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.