I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

Souls! When have you seen your own soul - that you're so certain you have one?

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

...I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.