I used to not back down from a challenge.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.