...to the last I grapple with thee

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt.

He thought moving to a small town would allow him to find a way to get along to some extent but people were just plain idiots.

Bent but never broken

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help you."

The FBI was creating a world where citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, rather than the other way around.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.