It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Information is power. --Humfrey

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

Obviously it could be, because it was.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Its funny to see how creativity is used to satiate a misplaced libido. How it shifts from an extension of who you are to a bait of what/how much you can get.

He seemed to think that spanking soled problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.

The sense of community is indispensable...to full self-realization.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.