"The only way to find your purpose in life is to live it. To experience everything. To take risks. To make mistakes."

"We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia."

"I think the greatest power is the power of the imagination. It's what allows us to create new worlds, new realities."

"I'm not a science fiction writer. I'm a philosophical writer."

"I think the universe is a living organism. And we're all just cells in that organism."