Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

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 love waking up to the sound of babies laughing. Unless it is at 1 am and you live alone...

Acceptability is that secret, which brings in surrender, Which brings in totality, which brings in love, From where arises our Oneness.

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

Innocence is the source of love.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.