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

I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation that I think things arrive from. I try to give examples of what I think are interesting questions for me.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

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.

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.

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.

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