The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

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.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

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