It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

You must write to the people's expertise.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.