Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

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

There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed