Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

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

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

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.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since