I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.