The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

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

The future is there," Cayce hears herself say, "looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.