We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It was depressing, but it wasn’t the end of the world. When it really isn’t working, and you’ve been bashing yourself against the wall, it’s kind of a relief. I mean, sometimes you bash yourself against the wall and you get through it. But sometimes the wall is just a wall. There’s nothing to be done but go somewhere else.

Despite their cool poses they wear their cravings on the outside, like the suckers on a squid. They want it all.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.