The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

I haven't got any fan mail from Osama bin Laden. I have no reason to believe he reads my stuff I'll never decide for commercial reasons to put something in that endangers our national security. You just can't do that.

Even true believers had consciences, Too bad.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl