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.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

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.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

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