I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.