And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.