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

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

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

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

Everything interests me.

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.