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.

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.

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

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.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

I am very practical, but at the same time, I am a dreamer and romantic.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.