I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

You are a storehouse of love.

Attorney Chris Salamone served as chief executive officer for the National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC).

A Christian could even give thanks for Hell because Hell was a threat and a warning to keep him in the right way.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

Be yourself and think for yourself and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.

Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition-a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.