I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.

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.

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.

I think that's what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life's processes, is not evidence of a god.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

As civilization grows more complex, it is simultaneously becoming increasingly interrelated. We are converging upon ourselves, and this is forcing us to relate.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!