Think larger. Redraw what is possible.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.

Power and moneyLike Pooh Bear and honeyStick fast.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The Future, ” says Ian, in a film-trailer voice. “Coming soon, to a Present near you.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

Here’s the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.

Nothing. And, I don't start before noon.

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny about it.

Small choices add up and each positive choice you make increases confidence and dispels fear.

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.