Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw away your shyness and the anger that lies just a few inches beneath ... Accept the truth! And if there is more than one truth, then learn to do the difficult work -- learn to choose. You are good enough, you are HUMAN ENOUGH, to choose!

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.