The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

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