English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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

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

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

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

I never learned to read music.