The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

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