Journalism is one set of tools - one toolkit I have. One vocabulary, one lens.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
I like fixing things.
I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Each profession has its own toolkit.
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. It might be a Swiss army knife, a quart of milk and a ruler. That might be all I can bring to it, but that's what I have.
