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...

When I'm back home in Chicago, since 'Roseanne' was such a Midwestern, blue-collar show, that's what sticks out in people's minds.

There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.

No one ever judges their own self.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

There is a Christmas song upon the air, There is a joy innate within the heart; An inner sense of peace, a holy light Illumines life and sets these days apart.

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.

I still have my Levi's jacket that I bought on the Portobello Road when I was 14, and it's like part of me, you know, it's got oils in it, and it's my comfort, security blanket or something.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.

Don't let the insecurities of others dull your sparkle. Shine like the star you are born to be.

I like telling stories.