I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".