Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

Appreciation is always appreciated.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.