Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

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.

When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occurs.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

The only thing at the back of my mind is longevity, and I'm really lucky that I've constantly been in work since I left drama school.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

All of management is about self-confidence

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

God guard me from my friends, for I shall guard myself from my enemies.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.