I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.