"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards."

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

"I'm not a science fiction writer. I'm a writer who uses science fiction as a metaphor for reality."

"Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans."