The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In Iran, until recently, they sold opium in shops legally, and they had 3,000,000 addicts in a population of 15,000,000. I don't believe that all those people were escaping from "complexes" or anything of the sort. They were simply exposed to it.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.