David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.