Fred Saberhagen

If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.