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.

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.

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

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

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

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.