The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

Realism can break a writer's heart.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'