For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me...a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.

We all are big believers in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.