In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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.

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence.

Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Swag mastah from Doncastah!

Big Government is erecting a panopticon state - one that sees everything, and regulates everything. It’s great “customer service,” except that you can never get out of the store.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win.