In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.