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

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

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

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 appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.