I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

The best advice that an accomplished writer could give a beginning writer is probably, "Find your slide and then grease it." Almost every writer that wants a rewarding career, in terms of money and status and number of readers, finally finds a certain genre or certain style that he or she sticks with until reaching a critical mass of readership. And I've violated this from the get-go.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.