I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.