I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

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