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"I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me."
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"But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"A series of disconcerting questions nibbles at hearts of troubled youths. These same unanswered questions, along with their acerbic toxins, reveal their pungent fumes more frequently and with greater intensity as a person rushes headfirst into life's concrete jungle."

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions."

"I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it."
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"I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now."


"I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory."


"Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated."


"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out."


"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."


"As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me."


"A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind."
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