When I can't do something, this always impels me to study 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.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

Love is the only flower that blooms and blossoms without the aid of seasons.

Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.

Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.

A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.