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

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.

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

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.

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)

A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

He who is in love with himself has no rivals.

I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.