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

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.

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.

A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on “What’s the next piece I’m going to write, or draw, that’ll pay this month’s rent?” And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

There is a subset of Democrats who tend to mis-fill out ballots. The way you mark the ballot is like an S.A.T. – you fill in the circle. And the subset of people who tend to, like, put a check there instead, or an X, or fill it out wrong.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They’re stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you’ll know everything about them.

I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?