I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

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.

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.

Whether we like it or not, we need each other.

God is in need of godly servants to send to the religious world to bring back his kingdom there

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.

When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence.

It could reach up and grab the moon.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.