When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.