People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.