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.
Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
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.
It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.
The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.
If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.
There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the fact that nonhuman animals are conscious beings, that they can suffer.
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'
