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.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

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

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

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I was a precocious reader.

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.