Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

I'm very interested in the evolution of technology, and it's really the idea of artificial life which intrigues me, more than just intelligence - a new, evolving life form arising within our datasphere and coming into living relation with humanity.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.