As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water.

It is far better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

Reading is a source of liberation. Children who are taught to read early on, are commonly taught to communicate in other significant verbal and nonverbal ways.

The author observers that better technology actually increased division because rival outlets funded by rival parties could get their slant to the partisans

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. van Vogt.

Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.

The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.

Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees!