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

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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

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 write in American slang.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.