“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”
“Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”
“What I write about is not war but the courage of man.”
“Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”