People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

I think fiction comes from everything you've ever done, and said, and dreamed, and imagined. It comes from everything you've read and haven't read... I think my work comes out of the culture of the world around me. I think that's where my language comes from.