We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appea….

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end..

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus fro….

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever..

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspect….

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time..

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning..

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life..

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it..

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time..

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future..

Myth is, after all, the neverending story..

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future..

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear..

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the s….

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect..

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession..

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich ….

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestsell….

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or thei….

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as ch….