Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.