“Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.”

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. ”

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”

“Science fiction inspires scientists, but it doesn't exist to dictate what our future should look like. Great science fiction is fun to read and it makes you think, period. Claiming anything more than that is dicey. Grand visions of the future were more prevalent in the golden-age science fiction, but all fiction is a reflection of the current times. As science moves more quickly, the horizon of science fiction tends to recede closer to the present.”

“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”

“I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction”