Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

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

That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.