Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.