I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart?

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.