I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.