I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

I was a precocious reader.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.