Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

The blind see what they want to see.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.