"The creative adult is the child who survived."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

"I have been trying to learn to use words, and every time I use them, they don't do what I want them to do."

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

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential part of the process of discovering what we are doing and thinking and feeling."