I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on you. Me, I get bored very easily. As a writer I get bored even faster than I do in real life. I mean, I like fast cars; I've driven a lot of racecars. You need some stimulation. If I find something that seems too difficult to do, too difficult to research, or beyond your writing abilities, it's a perfect invitation to try it.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

You have to live to really know things, my love

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.