One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.