Imagined Possibilities Quotes

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn't know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that 'beyond' became internalized in our psyche.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

Like I said, when I was a kid, they inspired me.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.