London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.