I'm told that a couple of my Russian translations are just plain terrible, though, and there may be others.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"