Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.