...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.