I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age.
We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.