Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

It has often been said that [...] the Japanese [are] geniuses at taking foreign ideas and adding a unique finishing touch.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.