“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”

“If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“We will burn that bridge when we come to it.”

“I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.”

“In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.”

“I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.”