I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

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

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

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

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.