The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

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

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.

Paranoia is just having the right information.