I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

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

[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

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

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.