"The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation."

-- Jamais Cascio

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“I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.”
“Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation.”
“There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.”
“Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.”
“It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.”
“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.”
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.”
“I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.”

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