Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

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

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.