Is anything accidental?

I never learned to read music.

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.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

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

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

I was a precocious reader.