We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

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.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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

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.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.