Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

Politics is shit

The world is for you and for the ones who roll out the carpet, even if it's tattered. They're scattered all over. And if you look carefully, they can help you find your way home, wherever you are.

You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

Strike as much and as hard as you please, only don't do it in the dark so that I cannot know who is my enemy.