One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.