Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Disney is a delight someone who... sweeps those around him along on his dream.

Engineers are all basically high functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

Like all security, privacy is hard.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

I think that Utopia is a theory of human action...

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

I love flying; I love aircraft, and you could say I've had a love affair with flight since I was a child. I travel a huge amount. I use airports, and as a pilot, I've flown in and out of airports thousands of times, so really, I have a fairly broad perspective.

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

A vow is a snare for sin.

Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.

I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities, like Shanghai, Seoul or Bangkok.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

The purpose of software is to help people.

Ive been in every disco in the world. I saw a picture of my wife Shakira and I dancing in Studio 54 I didnt even know someone had taken that picture.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.