It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means….

If it's not American, the French won't go see it..

I write in American slang..

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly hist….

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

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

Is anything accidental?.

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

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

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..

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction..

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..

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor..

I never learned to read music..

I was a precocious reader..

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

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

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

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