By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.

I am blessed. I can bless.

I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and am co-writing.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

The stratosphere is a hostile place.

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The great community of mankind had been subdivided into ten thousand communities, each organized for the ruin of the other.

You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.