You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.