Fear is the brother of hate.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.
It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began reading Robert Heinlein at age ten.
In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!