When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where.
The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
I have a strong feeling that the subject of evolution is beautiful without the excuse of creationists needing to be bashed.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.
