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.

Everything interests me.

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

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.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.

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.