Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

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.

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

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

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