To some extent I'm guilty of wishful thinking. The absence of the interstitial I find unbearable.

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

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

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.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.