Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.