The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Suggestion is a literary strategy.

Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.

The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off.

All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.

From 1968 on, I was pretty much the black, gay SF writer.