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

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.

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

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?

You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.

I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn’t have to pay me.

When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.