Civilization Is The Way One's Own People

Listen, No Part Of Me Is More Definitive Of Who I Am Than My Brain.

It's Interesting How Many Science Fiction Writers Get Going When They Are Very Young. I Was On A Program With Greg Bear And He Mentioned That He Had Gotten Started Writing When He Was Eight. And I Began Writing When I Was 10. I Think We're Influenced By The Stuff, We Find It And We Love It And We're Influenced By It....i Know I Collected My First Rejection Slip When I Was 13, And I Went On Collecting Them For A Long Time After That.

Religion Kept Some Of My Relatives Alive, Because It Was All They Had. If They Hadn't Had Some Hope Of Heaven, Some Companionship In Jesus, They Probably Would Have Committed Suicide, Their Lives Were So Hellish.

Helpless Lust And Unreasoning Anxiety Were Just Part Of Growing Up.

People Have The Right To Call Themselves Whatever They Like. That Doesn't Bother Me. It's Other People Doing The Calling That Bothers Me.