You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.