Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.