The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians

We've got to reinvest in space travel. We should have never left the moon.

Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

Stuff your eyes with wonder.

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.