Writing day and night for months… that’s hard.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

There are three kinds of people I've found: those who think the universe is good, those who believe it's corrupt, and those who don't want to think about it any more than they can help. I prefer the first two.

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.