A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Embrace the future with enduring hope and faith.

Wait awhile, and everything will change."~'Griblich

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I'm not really worried about the other 31 teams.

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

We live in an age where revenge seems to be the most important thing for individuals and countries.

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.