The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six." "Right." "And you're the oldest." "Yes." "That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.