A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

Inside the peach, there is a stone.