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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph."
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"Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better."
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"The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed."

"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

"The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time."

"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction."

"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

"Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious."

"What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time."
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