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Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings.
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar.
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.
Fantasy is literature for teenagers.
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.
