Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.