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

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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