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

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

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

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

All I knew about the word cyberspace when I coined it, was that it seemed like an effective buzzword. It seemed evocative and essentially meaningless. It was suggestive of something, but had no real semantic meaning, even for me, as I saw it emerge on the page.

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