I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.