I despair at the rise of modern violence. I truly give in to despair at times, that deep, futureless pit of despair.... I watch the American slaughterhouse, the casual attacks on popes, presidents, and uncounted others, and I wonder if there are many more out there with the Ability or if butchery has simply become the modern way of life.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

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

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

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.