I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

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.

Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.