Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.