If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.

It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.

Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.