I lost an arm on my last trip home.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

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

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.