When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.