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.

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

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

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

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.

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.