Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.

We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,' or 'Nobody under 25.' With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is 'reader.'

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.