When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.