“True evil is always petty and often incompetent.”
“Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.”
“Though often scoffed at by “serious” writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated with characters coping with the consequences.”
“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
“People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.”