Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.
The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Why stay we on earth except to grow?
Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.
You only fail if you stop writing.
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
The more you reason the less you create.
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
I am bigger than the box I'm in.
If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
No man surely has so short a memory as the American.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
But I think it's important that things endure.
My parents were sixty years married.
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
