When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.