I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him.

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.