They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice..

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome..

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it..

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can’t get m….

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words..

In my dreams of this city I am always lost..

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water..

Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our natur….

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supers….

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish ….

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea..

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program..

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired….

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time tr….

The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a da….

Never pray for justice, because you might get some..

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own action….

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...th….

Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was….

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it al….

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk..