It took me eight books to finally be at a point in my career where I could come out with a book and say, 'This is meant to be a funny book,' and we didn't have to make any bones about it.

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

I do think people of good will can have different opinions but still be coming not from a place of malice.

Personally speaking, when everything is boiled down to the marrow, I think the reason Reddit tolerates the creepy forums has to do with money more than anything else.

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.