A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

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.

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

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.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.