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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.


It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.


Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.


Working is hard and distracts from having fun.


I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.


My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.


Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.


There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.


Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.


I buy way too many books.


Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.


I listen to music constantly while writing.


I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.


In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.


My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.


One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.


There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.


Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.


I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.


As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.