Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression because Americans were afraid to buy cheap goods for Christmas, and the richest nation in the history of the world was talking about how to keep a budget.