I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

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

People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.