Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.