SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.