I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.

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.

Sometimes. it is not the person that you miss, but the memories that you made.

It's important you stay professional and keep working, and I'm thankful for everything that's happened to me.

Please all, and you will please none.

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

The water's always changing, always flowing. But people, I guess, can't live like that

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

I opened my eyes and met his dark, earnest gaze. "It's okay," I said. "It's okay now. I'm here I'll always be here for you.