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.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

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

We must think beyond ourselves

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.