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.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

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.

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.