As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

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

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.