I'm a very friendly socialist.

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.

Grow or Die - Don’t let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.

Smile because you are amazing.

Dachux: It’s not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.

What up you guys, I'm back!

My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

My main purpose is to pray five times a day. And that's not easy.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!