If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

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.

Expect to change yourself in order to change your life experience.

Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.