Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned clos….

We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind..

Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistica….

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind..

Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was jus….

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice..

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one..

Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsid….

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans..

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do wit….

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it..

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders..

For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just stylistically stunning; it felt lik….

Maybe because we're photosynthesizing we'll do more work outside. So our laptops will have to get rid of these damn glossy screens that have become s….

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told..

Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil..

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours..

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry..

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off..

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game..

It’s human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers..