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

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Evil is the refusal to see one's self in others.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.