My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

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

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.