Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever.