Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.