A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.