Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.