When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

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.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

You have to take people as they are because there are no others.

The Washington bureaucracy is too arrogant and imperial.

It's a sad day when you have to be disappointed in a fan.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.