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"In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God."
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"God and other artists are always a little obscure....."

"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."


"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."


"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."


"See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers."


"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive."


"To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example."


"I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear."


"I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection."
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