What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

We make versions, and true versions make worlds.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

I keep renaming my motives, but continue doing the same things.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.