Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.