Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

Love is for children. I owe him a debt.

Half of writing history is hiding the truth.