The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.