"I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before."

"I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants."

"I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't."

"I've been taking longer to write stories lately."

"I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually."

"I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share."

"I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also."

"This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him."