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

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

The street finds its own uses for things.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

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.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.