Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.

People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.