The street has its own use for things.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

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.

I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than food! There's more retail floor space devoted to the sale of books than there's been in the entire history of humanity! It's grotesque!

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.

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