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"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
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"One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events."
"Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature."
"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."
"I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring."
"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."
"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"
"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
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