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

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

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

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.

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.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.