What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it..

He knew all the answers. Everybody did. Everybody knew everything and everybody knew all the answers. It was just that the enemy seemed to know bette….

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a dis….

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed..

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to l….

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy..

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely..

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really..

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspici….

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they w….

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa..

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem ….

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun..

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others..

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve..

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!.

The bomb lives only as it is falling..

One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them..

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness..

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration..

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant..