We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.