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

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

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

I'm a very friendly socialist.

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.