DANIEL KEYS MORAN

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

There are, believe it or not, good politicians.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.