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

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.

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.

All worlds of fiction are alternative realities.

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.

Be charming at any age.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

Life is lie, Living is the truth.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

I wouldn't do go to another band.

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.