To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

The street has its own use for things.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

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

If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don’t know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one’s own culture.