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

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

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

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

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.

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.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.