Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?

It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

As I opened my eyes and witnessed the whites

Elia Kazan - the films he made were such a big deal for me when I was growing up.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

I walk fast. Keep moving. Always be a moving target. Marilyn Monroe taught me that.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.