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

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

'Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

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

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.