I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.