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?

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.