When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.