My business is to prevent the future.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me and holds me, facinates me. And then I'll run out and something about it... I write for fun.

If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.