Like The Newspapers Used To Say, If

My People, We Stay Indoors. We Have Keyboards. We Have Darkness. It's Quiet.

Writing Fiction Is Not A Profession That Leaves One Well-disposed Toward Reading Fiction. One Starts Out Loving Books And Stories, And Then One Becomes Jaded And Increasingly Hard To Please. I Read Less And Less Fiction These Days, Finding The Buzz And The Joy I Used To Get From Fiction In Ever Stranger Works Of Non-fiction, Or Poetry.

You Can Tell The Date Of An Old Science Fiction Novel By Every Word On The Page. Nothing Dates Harder And Faster And More Strangely Than The Future.

Hey, That's Life, Flick It Off If You Can't Take A Joke.

Stories Are Made Up By People Who Make Them Up. If They Work, They Get Retold. There's The Magic Of It.