I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.

In effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.