I have always been intensely uncomfortable with the idea of a science fiction writer as prophet. Not that there haven't been science fiction writers who think of themselves as having some sort of prophetic role, but when I think of that, I always think of H.G. Wells - he would think of what was going to happen, and he would imagine how it would happen, and then he would create a fiction to illustrate the idea that he'd had. And no part of my process has ever resembled that at all.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

The present tense made him nervous.

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

The future is not Google-able.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

I was once really close to sitting down and having a conversation with a shadowy young woman who is reputed have become a millionaire by investing in Beanie Babies. She was someone that a couple people claimed to know, she seemed to exist, but she remained shadowy.