Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.

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.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

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