If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
I never learned to read music.
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order
The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.
Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?
But hunger, like food, comes in many shapes and colors.
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel