Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to write books that aren't just using up trees.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

Republicans don't want to 'save the world'; they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.