Alex Memus

“i find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people”
― Marge Piercy

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.”
― Adam Roberts, Yellow Blue Tibia

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl

“Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic