If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.