Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people into watching the money shot.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.