In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

I wouldn't have a nose job. I like my nose fine.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

What is true is true, and what is false is false.

It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.