“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
“The best solution for little problems is to help people with big problems.”
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
“If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.”
“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.”
“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.”