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.

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

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.