“Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.”

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.

Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.

I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.

I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.

When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.

All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.

If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.

Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.

I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Living gives you a better understanding of life.

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

I will do my best to reduce the price of oil to expand the life span of oil at least for two decades or three decades.

Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.

The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

We understand that the world is very complex and that change doesn’t happen overnight. But you’ve now had more than three decades of blah blah blah. How many more do you need?