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

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.

I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.

It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.

Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.

We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

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.

Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too – but no matter what, we’re actually ALL together – is what has helped evolve my way of thinking about it.

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

All TV is, is really: ‘Don’t you want to be this, aren’t you glad you’re not that.’ There’s nothing really in the middle.

I have crushes on women all the time.

I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

I think that’s actually fine, and I would encourage that all the time.

I’m not scared at all… Of the cracks in the crystal ball.