I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.