I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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