Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.