I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.