To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

Fear is your sword

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

I wouldn't say I am the type of girl who craves Doritos, but I definitely love a good cupcake sometimes. Or a croissant in the morning.

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.

Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out—why not just wait until you’re crowning?

It is a merchant's nature to quibble over coins. It is how we become rich and buy satin shirts. The problems of who governs this area is one for another day.

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.