That's fairly common. We don't believe anything we don't want to believe.

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.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

Memories do not always behave in an orderly way, but bloom, as it were, erratically.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.

Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.