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

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

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

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.