I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.