There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Its hard to die. Harder to live

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Life doesn't retreat.