It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.