Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

I like the idea of being a working writer, not of saying that it's going to take me 30 years to write my magnum opus.

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the reader.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

As long as it's making you happy and you're enjoying it, then you should never stop writing music. Whether it's going to take you somewhere, viewed by other people, or it's literally you in a bedroom at home, it should be something that you do for yourself.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.