Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

One should be ever willing to learn,Why?

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into...

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is...