The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

We must think beyond ourselves

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.