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"What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms – in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetoricall..."

"If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet."

"Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be."

"It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title."

"If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones."

"The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by how much kids long to see themselves in stories. To see their identities and perspectives—their ava..."

"Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the storm. Obviously, it was not the storm itself that Turner intended to ..."

"If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge."

"It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid to truly dream is if you expand their idea of what is currently possible. A kid who has nothing, sees nothi..."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."