The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.

Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now.

Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.