You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.