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

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.

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

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.

The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

As long as we let the Word of God be our only armor, we can look confidently into the future.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

Within even the most social group there are many relations that are not as yet social.

Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.