There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

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

We are all eaters of souls.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

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

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

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.