Most of us do know we have no immortality. And when you've found a genius, someone who has already purchased his immortality in musical or literary terms, it's maddening.

I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

The young remember most deeply.... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.