I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in a very small town.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

The 'Net is a waste of time.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.