“A complicated life is an interesting life.”
“You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ”
“Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, ooh, this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different”
“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”
“Why are you so interested in amoebas?""Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being aperson is getting too complicated.”