I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

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.

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

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.

Banyak orang berkata jika rindu itu pahit, aku curiga mereka menyimpan rindu di empedu bukan dihati.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul.

... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.