I deeply care about what the fans think.

I don't want to write melodies anymore. I can only write really simple, dumb caveman melodies.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Angels, we have grown apart.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

Beyond the walls of intelligence, life is defined

When you make a choice as a writer about what it is you want to write, and what it is you're going to spend six months thinking about, you have to fall in love.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.