I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

Why in God's name should a God be praised if he is only performing his Godly function?

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.