Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an ex….

I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of ….

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a go….

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if….

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of convers….

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough..

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be….

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them..

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I prono….

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe..

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up..

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature..

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra….

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published..

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do i….

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining b….

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life..

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old..

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books..