Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

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.