In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

The first step to getting good is admitting that you aren't (yet).