I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

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.

Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

Strategy is about out-thinking your competition. Mark Zuckerberg, while at Harvard, built a website called Facemash ‘for fun’. Even today, Facebook believe that ‘done is better than perfect’.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.