There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.