I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

These shoes were made for dancing, not propping up a bar stool.""Those shoes were made for something, " Alex said. "And it sure as hell isn't dancing.

I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.

Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.

Each individual in a society is a nexus where innumerable relationships of this character intersect.

Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.