Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.