The street finds its own uses for things.

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

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

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