I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.