Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

Science is for crowds what art is for individuals

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Change isn't always for the best.

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.