I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

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