Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.

I like to do things that are surprising and different.