It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.

No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I wrote a query letter to an editor - a friend of a friend. The editor called me an idiot, told me never to contact an editor directly, and then recommended three literary agents he had worked with before. Laurie Fox was one of them, and I've never looked back.

A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.

How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.