So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

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

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.