Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.