Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

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.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.