You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.

You fall into a black hole, and you are irretrievably gone from the universe. That finality has made it irresistible to writers.

The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.