Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.

Every failure was a stepping stone towards a greater success.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent.