I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.

I am not my childhood,' Snowman says out loud.

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.

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.

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.