In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

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

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

I don't like allegory.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.