I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and sudenlly you're going to live another few hours.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.