Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.