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

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

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.

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

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).