I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."