Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.