Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot'.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

Anything that can go wrong, will

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I don't have a strong interest in history.