The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.