For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

The future is not Google-able.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.

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

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.