I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.