I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

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

We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.

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.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.