The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

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

After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?