We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.I am broken and bored, Is there any rewardReassure me, Good Lord, And inform me about it.Is there any reward?I'm beginning to doubt it.

There is an old saying, that in the desert a camel is more useful than a kingdom, " he said ruefully, "but as a location for lovemaking, it leaves a lot to be desired.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

That's Steve Howey's third-ever League goal and he's never scored more than two in a season before.

If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It’s now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

People do not respect music anymore... They go by what's hot... If you're hot, you deserve 4 or 5 Grammys... Madonna is a genius and she only has 2 or 3 Grammys... What is that about?

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.