I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...

Accomplishment of your dreams demand personal sacrifice and hard work.

Some things were better lost than found.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.

In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.