Ian Watson

“It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.”

“The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.”

“The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.”

“I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.”

“Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.”