A Sickly Little Smile Grew And Died

There's Plenty Of Stuff That I Don't Feel Dissident About: I Really Like Tea, I Don't Have Any Problem With That. I Like Lots Of Paintings.

We Speak Now Or I Do, And Others Do. You've Never Spoken Before. You Will. You'll Be Able To Say How The City Is A Pit And A Hill And A Standard And An Animal That Hunts And A Vessel On The Sea And The Sea And How We Are Fish In It, Not Like The Man Who Swims Weekly With Fish But The Fish With Which He Swims, The Water, The Pool. I Love You, You Light Me, Warm Me, You Are Suns. You Have Never Spoken Before.

When I Write My Novels, I'm Not Writing Them To Make Political Points. I'm Writing Them Because I Passionately Love Monsters And The Weird And Horror Stories And Strange Situations And Surrealism, And What I Want To Do Is Communicate That. But, Because I Come At This With A Political Perspective, The World That I'm Creating Is Embedded With Many Of The Concerns That I Have. But I Never Let Them Get In The Way Of The Monsters.

I'd Never Understood The Injunction Not To Regret Anything, Couldn't See How That Wasn't Cowardice.

One Of The Things That I Love So Much About Fantasy And Science Fiction Is That The Weirdness That It Creates Is Always At Its Best Completely Its Own End And Also Metaphorically And Symbolically Laden.