Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to Germany.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.

There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.