“The story is not in the plot but in the telling.”

“Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.”

“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

“...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.”

“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.”

“Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game.”

“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?”