The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Everything interests me.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.