People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.