I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.