Quotes from Greg Egan

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

Fandom is about fandom, it's a great big social club.

There was no truth in anything he said, anything he believed. It was all just an expression of his own needs.

I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over again.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old? That depends. On what? On how I want to feel.

Nobody wants to spend eternity alone.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.