Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

–It’s not Sci-Fi, we insist, It’s SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

I hope that the states are taking seriously their obligations to harden the cybersecurity around the election infrastructure that Americans rely upon and need.

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

Our journey of discipleship is not a dash around the track, nor is it fully comparable to a lengthy marathon. In truth, it is a lifelong migration toward a more celestial world.

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.