Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.