Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.

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

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 can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

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.

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