His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity. Its record for being accurately predictive is really, really poor! If you look at the whole history of science fiction, what people have said is going to happen, what writers have said is going to happen, and what actually happened - it's terrible.

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

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.