A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

The dead are way more organized than the living.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.