What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.

There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].