As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

As for jokes, I don't think it's necessarily that what I write is funny.

Maybe science is just magic with delusions of lack of grandeur.

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

We're all of us dying . . . from the moment we're born

I resisted the temptation to turn around and stick out my tongue in derision at Beliquose. After all, there was no telling when or if we should meet again, and I certainly did not need him saying, 'Ah yes, Poe, the fellow whose trespasses i could have forgiven in their entirety... except for the tongue thing. Yes, for that, you must surely die.'