But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

I shall remain on Mars and read a book.

Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.