I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures. The result is that we all know what it's like to be strangers in a strange land. It's not just a coincidence that there are so many effective Mormon science fiction writers. We don't regard being an alien as an alien experience. But it also means that we're not surprised when people don't understand what we're saying or what we think.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.