One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.

I'd love to think that people in the future would gather in theatres, at conventions, and in darkened rooms, and read it out to each other.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

When I was a kid and a young man I read everything. When I was about 23, I was incredibly lucky in that I wound up with several book review columns, which meant that I had to read huge amounts of stuff that was outside my experience and outside my comfort zone. I think every young writer should be forced to read the kind of stuff they would not normally read for pleasure.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.