I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves

Good is the enemy of great

Learning to think beyond a single dimension, look beyond the surface, love more than one color and enjoy the world of differences.

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.