Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares...heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.