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

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

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

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.