All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

I write in American slang.

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

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.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I was a precocious reader.