When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

We must think beyond ourselves

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.