All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

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

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.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.