I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.