I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.