You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.

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

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

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 future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.