What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.
I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.