"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be."

"I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to heaven is paved with them too."

"The unread story is not a story; it is a sentence, a string of words, until it has been read. The reader is a collaborator."