I'm not insane, sir. I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.

It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

Never anger a sci-fi writer. These people destroy entire planets over lunch. Imagine what they'll do to you.