Life Is Hard. Then You Die. Then

Christianity Has Held Back Any Further Advances In Human Consciousness For The Past Thousand Years. And For The Past Century It's Been In Direct Conflict With Its Illegitimate Offspring, Communism (again With A Capital C). Both Ask The Individual To Sacrifice His Self-interest To The Higher Goals Of The Organization. (which Is Okay By Me As Long As It's Voluntary; But As Soon As Either Becomes Too Big - And Takes On That Damned Capital C - They Stop Asking For Cooperation And Start Demanding It.) Any Higher States Of Human Enlightenment Have Been Sacrificed Between These Two Monoliths.

I Had Always Been Fascinated By The Whole Idea That Australia Was This Different Ecology And That When Rabbits And Prickly Pears And Other Things From Europe Were Introduced Into Australia, They Ran Amok.

Adolescence Is That Time In Your Life When You Discover Your Ability To Be Depressed.

When I Was A Kid, My Favorite Movies Were The George Pal Version Of 'war Of The Worlds,' 'them,' And 'invasion Of The Body Snatchers.' Those Movies Were Scary! They Haunted My Nightmares For Years, So When I Started Writing, I Wanted To Write A Story That Was Just As Big And Just As Scary.

We Have This Sacred Cow In Our Society That What The Majority Of People Want Is Right—but Is It? Our Populace Can't Really Be Informed, Not The Majority Of Them—most People Vote The Way They Have Been Manipulated And By The Way They Have Responded To That Manipulation—they Are Working Out Their Own Patterns Of Wishful Thinking On The Social Environment In Which They Live.