Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have paid for it with their humanity and their immortal souls.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Mobs have passions, not brains.