I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

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 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.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

I had gone to school to work on technique and found it wasn't something that was really worthwhile to me, although it probably was.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

You're never so bad you can't have a Savior, no matter how much you've sinned.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.