I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

Writing gives me wings.

I am aware of my madness and what I need is someone else to see the beauty in my madness.

People who are combative in one relationship tend to be combative in other relationships.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.