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.

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.

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)

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

I don't like to meet with people smiles, I always like to meet with the pain of people.

It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

Nothing helps your partner keep his mind on Jesus more than having a sign of His love tanned on your primary erogenous zones.

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends'. And Goran Ivanisevic.