All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

Soylent Brown? It ain’t people, but it comes from them.

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

For some the label sci-fi is just a shortand for science fiction, an alternative to sf gesturing at ... you know, that stuff we like.

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

I know that it is dangerous. I also know that it is right.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

A woman will sometimes forgive the man who tries to seduce her, but never the man who misses an opportunity when offered.

Real love shouldn't be disposable.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

I still have my [flight] license and I can still pass a flight physical.

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life.