One person can't know or like everything, so an editor needs collaborators whose opinions and expertise he values and can trust.

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.

I had the insane misconception that I was ready to conquer the known universe with Tähtivaeltaja. No mercy!

New writers seem to pop up from everywhere. And quite a few of them are really good and original.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Healthy people live with their world.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

You should never, ever apologize for anything that makes you happy.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

. . .nothing could eclipse the stain of his dirty, mortal mediocrity.

I’m so overwhelmed.” – Nick “Most of us are, Nick. Even though we look calm and peaceful on the outside, most of us are barely hanging on by our fingernails.” – Caleb

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment