You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END