Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
A divorce is like an amputation you survive it, but there's less of you.
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked as I never was when I was not one.
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
Gardening is not a rational act.
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
War is what happens when language fails.
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them there ought to be as many for love.
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
If the national mental illness of the united states is megalomania, that of canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Reality simply consists of different points of view.
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
