When I read a novel that I really like, I feel as if I am in direct, personal communication with the author. I feel as if the author and I are on the same wavelength mentally, that we have a lot in common with each other, and that we could have an interesting conversation, or even a friendship, if the circumstances permitted it. When the novel comes to an end, I feel a certain letdown, a loss of contact. It is natural to want to recapture that feeling by reading other works by the same author, or by corresponding with him/her directly.

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave

The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.