If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

Civilization must be preserved, ' says he.'Civilization's doing fine, ' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep.

Hope means hang on.

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections.

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

I think if I produced a show I would not want to be part of that production. That's not... I'm not... I mean, I couldn't even sell Boy Scout chocolate bars when I was a kid!

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.