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

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.