Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back