Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

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.

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