My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

Anything before you’re thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world’s going to hell.

Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.

I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use Twitter. I don't give anyone a lot to grab onto. Sometimes, I even take out the battery of my mobile phone so that I can't be localized.

I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

I'm not necessarily proud of the World Cups and the grand slams won or lost, the amount of points I scored, this record or that.

The worst day of my life was once that my mom didn't allow me to go to a Queen concert because I was grounded.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.