I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

The future is not Google-able.

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.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

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