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.

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

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.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

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

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.