I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

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

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.