Kim Stanley Robinson

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Barack Obama is crazy sexy.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.