Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

Think about what you think about is much more than a clever grouping of words. It’s largely the difference between maximized and unrealized potential.

People Bond when they are having fun

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

People handle stress in different ways.

I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.