Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.