A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

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

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.