There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have..

There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter..

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing..

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English..

I never learned to read music..

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal hu….

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless..

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor..

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype..

I was a precocious reader..

You can really do more than you think you can do..

Is anything accidental?.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy..

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces..

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them..

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage..

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal..

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market..

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction..