I like to travel and connect.

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

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

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

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.