You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

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

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.