To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
It's unbelievable how many things I've learned from Merlin Olsen.
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
Good luck is a residue of preparation.
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.
Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.