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

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

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

The present tense made him nervous.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.