"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.

Hope, like despair, is something of a distraction: it gets in the way of a clear view of the horizon.

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.