It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

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.

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")

Never knew the word Goodbye could scatter my heart into pieces. Just 1 word, could made me cry over you.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.

As your lover describes you, so you are.

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.