I like to travel and connect.

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.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

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.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Everything interests me.