Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

Bias and prejudice make me angry...more than anything.

All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes - all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge,,then we become the gravediggers.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.