We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

Time is money, but also money is money.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.