The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

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.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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.

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

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.