Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

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.