The good agent probably is not the reader, he's just the guy who can put together a deal.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful.