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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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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."
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