“There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro”

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”

“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”

“There are only two types of people in the world--those who became otaku and those who didn't--and the latter just can't understand what the former is so excited about."--Ono Norihiro”

“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.”

“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”