George wrote one of the more beautiful short SF stories I’ve read, “A Song for Lya.” Unfortunately, that was back in ‘74. He’s had plenty of time to get full of himself, and apparently, full of BS, too.
In Spain there was a saying, “Dumb as a Painter”- that in the era of Velazquez, El Greco, etc.
You get the point, artists produce beautiful stuff, but like children they say the darnedest things.
In any case read the books. They are good. There is little to no sex in the books and it’s all about cold calculation in politics. The total antithesis of what the man professes to believe.