I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.

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