An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide is finished and refuses to answer questions as to its final cause.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.