It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.