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

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

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

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.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?