Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.

Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.