There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'

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.

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds

Three Italians sitting around a kitchen table without food or drink is a sure sign of trouble.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

It's against the law to go out on Sunday from the end of June until Labor Day. It forces the fishermen to spend some time with their families.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.