I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.

Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.