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.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.