I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

THE MAGIC AND THE DANGER OF FICTION IS THIS: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with, and cry for people who do not, outside of the story, exist. There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.