Science fiction went through a period that was mostly object-oriented or inventions for distant galaxies.But when we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up.

Love is the pursuit of shadows.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.