The welfare system in the United States is vile.

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.

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.

Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly."I'm working up the nerve, " he said softly.

Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.

Heartbreak might be a fact but you don't have to be a victim to it

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.

I don't even own a cell phone.