I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.