I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.

She was clothed entirely in two large swatches of leather, the leather fake and shiny in a self-mocking way, absolutely correct for 1993, the first year when mocking the mainstream had become the mainstream.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.