Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Love doesn’t rule the world. The lust for power and dominance over others is what drives men – always has, always will.

When you cease to love, you cease to exist.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

How well I would write if I were not here!

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.