The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
If this goes badly and I make a crater, I want it named after me!
Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.