The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.

The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.

We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.