A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Occasionally, I'll dream I'm in the factory. That will help me write. Not creatively, but more like a prod. I don't want to go back there.

Weave the circle, tightly sewn, Let nothing evil or unknownEnter within. Stay withoutOn pain of death, we cast you out.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

Transform your anger into energy to effectuate positive change.

There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.