Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

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.

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.