If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

In every life there is a challenge. For every challenge that I take on, if I follow through, I accomplish. When I have accomplished, then I have achieved. If I achieve, than I can proudly say I did my job well.

In order to survive, the human race must defend itself.

I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.