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

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.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

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

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

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.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.