I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.

I do get approached every day by people who say, 'Why don't you make more movies?' I don't really miss it when I get to go and watch my daughter in the Christmas pageant.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons

The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious.

Sunscreen! It is a recent discovery and now I can't live without it - that and drinking lots of water and moisturizing.

I go out and salsa with friends, especially in the summertime. Now that's incredible cardio!