There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.