I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

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

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.