The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

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

Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

Time is money, but also money is money.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It wasn't an aberration, though I realize that in retrospect. I grew up in the part of the U.S. where all of Cormac McCarthy's novels are set and that's a pretty violent place.