I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.