I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.