I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.
Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him either.
I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.