Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

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.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.