Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.