Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important..

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre..

It had helped to keep her sane, that writing. Then, when time had begun again and real people had entered it, she'd abandoned it here. Now it's a whi….

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that..

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk..

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered ….

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different..

We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change a….

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard..

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you t….

The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time..

The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedg….

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I ….

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson..

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to ….

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, op….

If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have t….

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got ….

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over..

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been..