“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, ...” — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Quote

“I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.”

“Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.”

“Now I'm just loving the world of Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle so much. I really wouldn't want to go back into the world of Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling - where would the fun and adventure be in that?”

“There's a lot of superhero stuff out there and a lot of cop stuff out there. What we have very little of anymore is adventure.”

“It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.”