Quotes from Daniel Keys Moran

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.

There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.

I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

It's your body and your life and you have an absolute right to do with it as you choose.

Police do not belong in war zones.

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.