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

Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io. Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better. Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.

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

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

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

Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.