One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that develop it and get it out there don't really know what we are going to do with until we have really gotten ahold of it and it has become ubiquitous. And then we wind up doing things that its inventors never dreamed of and those things become the real change drivers. That is actually where the whole technocracy thing falls apart for me, because the people who invented it can't predict what we're going to do with it.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

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

I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.