"Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk."

"I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy."

"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever."

"Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things."

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."

"Imagination rules the world."

"I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre."