I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.