A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface.

More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.

Steampunk is nothing more than what happens when Goths discover brown.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.