People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

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.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

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