Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

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