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

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.

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.

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

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.

This is what I will do from now

A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer and more engaging experience for the reader.

The person who floated the axe with a stick is in charge of my affairs, so marvel not.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life " but that now is all there is of my life.

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

How did they know that I was the one who saved them?" "They don't. You're the third knight they've celebrated over since it happened.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.