One Of Life's Joys Was To Have

The Measure Of (mental) Health Is Flexibility (not Comparison To Some 'norm'), The Freedom To Learn From Experience ... To Be Influenced By Reasonable Arguments ... And The Appeal To The Emotions ... And Especially The Freedom To Cease When Sated. The Essence Of Illness Is The Freezing Of Behavior Into Unalterable And Insatiable Patterns.

One Of Life's Joys Was To Have Friends Who Gave You Reality Checks...who Would Call You On Your Crap Before It Rose So High You Drowned In It.

Science Fiction Is The Jazz Of Literature.

Gaia Spins On, Silently Contemplating What It Means To Be Born Into A Sarcastic Universe.

Change Is The Principal Feature Of Our Age And Literature Should Explore How People Deal With It. The Best Science Fiction Does That, Head-on.