There are two categories of writers, it could be said: The author who is just a voice, and the one who is also creating a picture. I belong to the latter, because I have an acute visual sense.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.