What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? . . . First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.

Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.