Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

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

Addictions [...] started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were [...] less intelligent than goldfish.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

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

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.