She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

Maybe I've been a small part of the democratisation of celebrity, because I've been fascinated by it, and when it started to happen to me to the very limited extent that it happens to writers in North America, I was exposed to people who had the disease of celebrity. People who had raging, raging, life-threatening celebrity, people who would be in danger if they were left alone on the street without their minders. It's a great anthropological privilege to be there.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.