A love of books of holding a book turning its pages looking at its pictures and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home in America's factories and on the farms in the cities and the country.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

For four years I listened to stories of intelligence failures and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system but that the system is so arcane.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy the National Laboratories and the Department of Defense.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories the streets the cathedrals of the imagination.

I always know exactly where my stories take place which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about but you can't know it all and that's where imagination can work.