When things don't work well in the bedroom, they don't work well in the living room either.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Failure is inevitable. It teaches us things about ourselves that we could have learnt any other way.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

Half is done when the beginning is done.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.