You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.