It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.