“I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.”

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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

When I got to university, I played in bands and did sketch stuff and it was always about coming up with material, which is why I never really practised and have no chops!!

It is not clear what they have bought, how many secondhand materials they have bought. I am very worried that something like Chernobyl will happen to Iran.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.

We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.

I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

“We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields – politically, militarily and materially.

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.