Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.