I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.