It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

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.

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.

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 universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!

True silence is the speech of lovers.

No one will protect what they don't care about, and no one will care about what they have never experienced.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

I don't give out compliments easily.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.