Empathy is the antidote to shame.
I like fast plots with things that explode.
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
I believe that 'MasterChef' brings something more to the table, so to speak, than simply being another reality food TV show. My hope is that it will inspire America to get more involved in the food they eat, how it is prepared.
. . . every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.
I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.