I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.

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

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.

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.

I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug.Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep.

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were one's own.

There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Everything is danger, but we pretend that it's not.

Talent is a gift, but you can only succeed with hard work.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!