Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.