When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

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

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

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

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

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.

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