“The most profound questions are best explored through fiction.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”

“No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.”

“The difference between travel writing as fiction is the difference between recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy - how sad that I could not reinvent the trip as fiction.”

“Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.”

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”

“The difference between design and research seems to be a question of new versus good. Design doesn't have to be new, but it has to be good. Research doesn't have to be good, but it has to be new. I think these two paths converge at the top: the best design surpasses its predecessors by using new ideas, and the best research solves problems that are not only new, but worth solving. So ultimately design and research are aiming for the same destination, just approaching it from different directions.”