In A World In Which

No One Ever Expects Poetry To Sell...

Time Is A Rigid, Bonelike Structure, Extending Infinitely Ahead And Behind, Fossilizing The Future As Well As The Past.

Novels Aren't Pedagogical Instruments, Or Instructions In Law Or Physics Or Any Other Discipline. A Novel Has To Be An Emotional Experience, A Trip Of The Imagination, And Because Science Has Raised So Many Issues That Concern And Affect Humans, It's A Good Starting Place For Me.

I Oppose Any Belief That Contradicts Experimental Evidence As Determined By The Methods Of Science. All Beliefs Not In Such Contradiction May Be Considered As Faith. Whether Faith In A Particular Belief Is Beneficial Or Not Is Another Matter.

We're Plugged In 24 Hours A Day Now. We're All Part Of One Big Machine, Whether We Are Conscious Of That Or Not. And If We Can't Unplug From That Machine, Eventually We're Going To Become Mindless.