Fear has two components to it, Kirill. There’s the intellectual awareness of something that might harm you. And there’s the emotional, glandular reaction to that perception. I’m fully aware of the dan...
Do you really think that you’re some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?
Population growing, swelling, bursting beyond the capability of the world to sustain so many human beings. Six billion people. Eight. Ten. Most of them starving, diseased, born in miserable poverty an...
There are more than three hundred trillion cells in the human body. Counting ten cells per second, it would take more than a million years to count them all.
The first thing he thinks of is weaponry, killing his fellow humans. The second thing is power.
So I started to wonder if I actually could reenter the unicorn’s world…at which point Sooz came into my head and the story just happened. It flowed. It was the exact opposite of my experience writing...
Reired but he still runs Selene, the power behind the throne. He ifts an eyebrow and everybody hops to do what he wants. As they walked through the lush shrubbery and trees that filled he grotto, Verw...
When we do this thing, we admit failure. We admit fear—yes, terror. We are terrified of a new idea, a new scientific discovery. The government of the world, the protectors of peace and stability, must...
We try to teach our students how to think... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other s...
The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as t...
Lolling around libraries paging through books that haven’t been checked out since 1975 is one of my principal joys as a writer.
Isaac Newton had discovered that for every action there is an opposite reaction. Popular wisdom declared that every dark cloud has a silver lining.