The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

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.

Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

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

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.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.