[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.