I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.

Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do.

The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

You look like a protagonist.

I don't play games with people's lives like you do.