The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

I have seen myself backward.

I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.