"Yes, I can understand greed." "I call it a desire for security." - Roger Zelazny

Robots are nice to work with. They mind their own business, and they never have anything to say.

Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then.

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name.