It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

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.

there are some poemsthat we leave behindsome that leave us behindwhile some just livesilentlyin the heartcrumble, sometimesdwindledisappeardieand are rebornwhen you smile again.

Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

What is most needed is a loving heart.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.