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

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.

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