For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

If there had once been a chance and there had once been love, then it will still be there in spite of time and obstacles. If you can get past that, you can get past a lot.

You are not listening to a word I am saying . . . and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.

If you write without reading, you will certainly have too many books without readers.

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.

I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.