I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.

I would advise anyone who is at the start of a rest ritual like the Sabbath, to take it slowly and grow incrementally into it. Recognize that it will be hard at first. It's a discipline but then it is a true and deep joy.

For some reason, I write about crash-landed spaceships quite a lot and my wife is sick of hearing of hearing my ideas for new tales about them.

I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.

I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.

In order to survive, the human race must defend itself.

If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.