Fiction is about stuff that's screwed up.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

There are two wrong reactions to a rejection slip: deciding it's a final judgment on your story and/or talent, and deciding it's no judgment on your story and/or talent.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Conflict is the place where character and plot intersect.