Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.