The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything.

I was only eight when Sputnik was launched, and at that age the boundary between science and fiction is pretty blurry. Whichever way the process ran, I've been a fan of science and SF ever since.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.

The medical nanobots in my novel 'Small Miracles' tap the energy sources that the patient's own body provides. That is, they can metabolize glycerol and glucose, just as the cells in our bodies do.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

I'm always so glad I have no idea what you're vacantly chatting about," said Jace. It fills me with a sense of peace and well-being.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.

Revelation is always measured by capacity.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings.

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it