I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

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.

I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.

The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.