If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

The Phantom is not famous for forgiveness.

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.