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.

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

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

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.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

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.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.