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

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

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.

I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

Some people dote on contemplating disasters.