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.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

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

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.