Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.