Every New Yorker thinks they’re automatically better than everyone else in every other city on the planet: even their unnems were a better class of beggars.

This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.

The only things I can’t offer you are children and politicians: the first is illegal and the second is expensive

Sometimes respect is as hard a currency as money is

What did journalists know of tech, anyway? Who gave a damn about the press? We were the Good Guys. Changing the World. Doing the Important Stuff.

Discrimination is not just racial now. It’s also about the kind of body parts you have.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

I'm proud of every woman, of every American, that makes her dreams come true.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.