When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.