“I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.”

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.

So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.

Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values.

Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.