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

I like to travel and connect.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

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

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