"Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood. What's dead in there still looks out. It's not just the body looking at you with nothing in it; there's still somethi…"

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

"The universe is a hologram. Everything is connected to everything else."

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who writes a lot of books."

"On Thursdays and Saturdays I'd think it was God. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I'd think it was extraterrestrials. Some times I'd think it was the Soviet Union Academy of Sciences trying out their psych…"