No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

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

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.

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