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

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

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

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

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.