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.

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.

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

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)

Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.