Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of.

You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?

The most important blessing to count is your heart beat.

All contests are unfair

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

Wipe your glosses with what you know.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is somthing you choose.