It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
I’m a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.
As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
The welfare system in the United States is vile.
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I’m unable to see it.
If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don’t balance the budget, we don’t pay them.
The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
Police do not belong in war zones.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don’t want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
Never test for an error condition you don’t know how to handle.
Remember you don’t really own anything you can’t carry at a dead run.
If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.