The best science fiction is as good as the best fiction in any field.

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.

I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.

Your digital footprints speak volumes than your CV

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

When I have extra time I just go out to the Hamptons. I have a house in Southampton I go out to as much as I possibly can.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

If you're ever killed mountain climbing, then all that you've worked for is gone

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything else.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.