A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.

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

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

Writing is a communication.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News.

When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

I've wanted to be an astronaut, a doctor, a vet - these are things I've said in interviews. Before that, I wanted to be a mermaid and a fairy.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.