I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Silence creates it's own violence.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

We should feel an urgency about our environment and what's been done to it by human action and inaction. I wouldn't say there's a resurgence - I think it's been with us all along, and especially since the 1960s and 1970s, but it is true that there's almost a subsection of the bookstore devoted to it now. Personally, I've been addressing these issues in my long and short fiction since the late 1980s - basically since the beginning of my career.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?