I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.