Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

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.

Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.

Death and madness are his only mistresses.

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

I wanted a more female point of view.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl.

I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.