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"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."
"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."
"There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives."
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else."
"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"
"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."
"When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance."
"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."
"One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events."
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