I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

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

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'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.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.