I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.