I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.

No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.