If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.

One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.

Progress means nothing to presence.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.