In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.