I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working….

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling..

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!.

...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves..

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all conc….

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem ….

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspici….

What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present..

I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant..

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!.

Here, in the bare dark face of night A calm unhurried eye draws sight We see in what we think we fear The cloudings of our thought made clear.

It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just s….

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others..

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films..

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese..

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant..

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again..

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. ….

I'm an only child so am happy with my own company and I don't really get lonely..