The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Anyone who's not interested in model airplanes must have a screw loose somewhere.

The only dumb question is the question you don't ask.

We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead?

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.