The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum.
How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.