Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.