Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.