"I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel."
"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."
"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom."
"If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship."
"[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!"
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."