The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

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.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.