It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Police do not belong in war zones.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

You can't express your true feelings until you know what they are

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!