The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction.

The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.