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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

You'd save millions upon millions of lives by making fossil fuels available to parts of the world that don't have it.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.