I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

I was still asleep; distracted in my idyll with
death. She wouldn’t let me go… my lover… my
accomplice into nothingness. The Night… who was the lover of the darkness, lover of the nothingness, lover of the death, lover of mine! Meanwhile the eternity, my other lover, was waiting for me in the end…

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.