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

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

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.

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)

We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun

Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!

Keep expectation alive. Keep stirring it up. Let much promise more, and great deeds herald greater.

I leave for the guidance of other revolutionaries, who may tread the path which I have trod, this advice; never treat with the enemy, never to surrender to his mercy, but to fight to a finish.

If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

Everybody is two beings: one lives and flourishes in the daylight and stands guard. The other being walks and howls at night.