I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

The best content is the means, not the end.

I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in the United States, and I was fascinated by those communities and how they grew, how their politics developed, and the actual suffering of those people and the tribulations they went through.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.