Brilliant people never think of the lives they smash, being brilliant.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

There were moments when she wasn't talking so much as fading into time, dropping back into some funnelled stretch of recent past.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that time, but very infrequently. I quit my job just to quit. I didn’t quit my job to write fiction. I just didn’t want to work anymore