Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.