For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.