I really don’t care what movie stars have to say about life.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There’s lots of good stuff on the ballot.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The other one I did was “I, Robot.” I take apart Isaac Asimov’s Robots world.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Well, I don’t know. It’s long, it’s longer than both of the other books put together, so it’s more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in...

Kids’ views are often just as valid as the teachers’. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and...

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They’ve all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or...

Killing is the payoff of war.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what’s going on in my life.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy’s widow is still alive, and she respected that.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it’s not that difficult, really.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don’t like their kids.

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn’t work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species...

Whenever it’s suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it’s rubbish. That’s never happened.

Clinton’s pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

It’s a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold...

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does...

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we’re not going go out...

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

It’s hard not to like Asimov; he’s a really likable guy.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don’t do what I do to right any wrongs.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to...

It’s part of a cycle of stories I’m writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

It’s weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it’s just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it’s a lot more emotionally raw.