Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

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.

You know, you're very strong" Nicola said."Thank you.""That's no compliment. It's your weakness. If you weren't so strong you wouldn't have to take it and so you wouldn't.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

We'll run a lot of multiple sets - pro set, twin set, the box set, ... We'll run a lot of option plays and pass the ball more than in the past.

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.