I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
The resistance to science is idiotic.
People expect me to be thin and perfect... I'm not.
Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.
I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.
There is light in the world, and it is !
There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.
The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.
I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
Science is the topography of ignorance.
It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
Never take counsel of your fears.
I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.