"Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other …"

"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

"I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be."

"The word for world is forest."