How do you explain a world that gifts evil men with privilege and wealth and looks the other way while they torment and abuse the weakest members of society?

Let your words be your voice. And let your voice be heard within the hearts of others.

The American political system is like fast food--mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things...and everybody wants some.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.

I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

All the rich families who used to own all the British estates have gone bust because their children have blown their money.

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Smithson was someone of tremendous significance whose work was not beautiful at all. I think he was an iconoclast.