What you are will make you what you will become.

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.