There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

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 mean, my age is just a number. So what if you were born in the era when they still used rotary phones and cassette tapes? I think it’s cute.

If death is necessity life is a choice

Insecurity of the spirit demands completeness elsewhere.

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

Don't you touch me again. I will knock you out, junior!

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.

You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

I am not the worst singer.