For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.

Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.