In loquaciousness lay insanity.

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.

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance.

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

You're talent, and we're the talent scouts.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

You can't get blase about something you haven't done yet.