Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

Honey, have you seen your sister?” She’s on Jupiter, Mom.

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!

And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.