What you get is no longer what you see.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.

I grew up amongst biologists.

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.