You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.