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

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.

You must live your story.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

Perhaps depression is a perfectly natural reaction to the human condition.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

How can I dispose of myself with it?

I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.

It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself