“For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblo...” — Ellen Hopkins Quote

For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longer relaxation, I enjoy camping. Just being in the wilderness, with no phones or computers or anything I have to do really refreshes my spirit.

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

We used our brains to create and program them, and now we have to continue to use our brains to prevent computers from taking over our lives.

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.