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.

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

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.

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

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Good manners is the fabric that holds the community together.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

You might be a redneck if someone tells you you have something in your teeth, and you take them out to see what it is.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.