I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.