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.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

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.

We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.

You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.