There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

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.

There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents.

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.