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

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

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.

You are not just a photojournalist, you’re a historian.

The search for the truth for truth’s sake is the mark of the historian.

It has been important to me, as an historian of photography, to understand photography by photographing.

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.

And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.