Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Blood is not destiny.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

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

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.