“De kleine Rainman schuilt in ieder z'n brein.”

“Als je niet meer kunt denken omdat je hersenen niet meer functioneren, dan besta je als persoon ook niet meer.”

“Los que leemos ciencia-ficción, lo hacemos porque amamos la experiencia que supone la reacción en cadena de las ideas que tiene lugar en nuestras mentes por lo que hemos leído, algo novedoso; así, el propósito final de la mejor ciencia-ficción es la colaboración entre el autor y el lector, una colaboración en la que ambos son creadores — y disfrutan de ello: el disfrute es el ingrediente esencial y definitivo de la ciencia-ficción, el disfrute del descubrimiento de las cosas nuevas.”

“A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.”

“I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me”

“I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn’t enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn’t, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else’s opinion.”

“One of my greatest strengths is to admit my weaknesses.”