Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a Trek person. I feel about Trek the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.