“Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”

“You have a funny way of showing how much you don't like me.""I don't like gophers, either, but I wouldn't leave one to suffer. I'd shoot it to put it out of its misery.”

“That was the thing about the Goodnight world. No matter what the label said, you could never assume anything only worked like magic.”

“As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.”

“Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.”

“I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.”

“She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.”