I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.

We are all riding on the same bus.

Tell me something I can dance to.

Finish is a laundry powder. I feel guilty when I finish a book.

...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

I'm not a Hollywood guy.

I love New York City.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

What barrier is so insurmountable as silence?

Your commitments can develop you or destroy you, but either way, they will define you.

You can’t die, Vik. You’re a mechbot. (Syn) They can pull me apart and reprogram me. Trust me, that’s death. Now shush before they find us. Remember – hide, people, hide. (Vik)

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.