When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.