The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.
Rudy RuckerScience fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy RuckerFor me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just pretend that the whole thing is two miles below the moonโs surface, and that half the peopleโs right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly itโs interesting again.
Rudy Rucker