You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.
Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.
There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.
What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.
Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and both of those extremes hurt us because they prevent us from recognizing the truth.
Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.
You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.
