Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

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

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 historical biography.

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

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

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

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.

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

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

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

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Keep Reading.Keep Writing.Keep Pushing yourself!And never stop learning!We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".

The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.