None of us know our real names.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

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).

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

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.

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—