Most of my short stories are fantasy.

Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.

Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together.

You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.