A biography for Daniel Keys Moranhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“Plot and character are virtually the same thing.”
“The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it.”
“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.”
“The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.”
“To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.”
“The welfare system in the United States is vile.”
“We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.”
“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.”
“If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.”
“If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.”
“There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life.”
“Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.”
“Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality.”
“It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.”
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.”
“The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.”
“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.”
“It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.”