It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.