The dead are way more organized than the living.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

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

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

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