Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me