The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

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.

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its leastworthy members.