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

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.

I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

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

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

The street finds its own uses for things.