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.

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.

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.

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

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.