What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.