I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

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.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.