Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.